What are Rubrics?

• Ideas and Rubrics
  Introduction to rubrics, how to create a rubric, and rubric bank.
• Make Room for Rubrics 
  What a rubric is, why use rubrics, and tips on finding and building rubrics.
• Why Rubrics? 
  Discussion of what a rubric is, why use one, and how to develop one.
• Evaluating Assessment Tasks with Rubrics: Reliable Rubrics Bring Objectivity to the Scoring Process 
  Discussion of rubrics and how to create one; Includes a generic analytic rubric.

Assessment of Technology Skills

• Technology Self Assessments 
  Assessment of technology skills for primary, middle, and high school students and staff.
• Microsoft Office Rubrics 
  Self assessment on MS Office.
• Technology Literacy Challenge
  Comprehensive assessment of skills in basic computer operations, office applications, and telecommunications.
• Internet Skills Rubric 
  Score on acceptable use, using the Internet, and creating web pages.
• Assessment Rubrics
  Rubrics on class and group participation, lesson plans, etc.

Rubrics for Technology Products

• A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests
  Evaluates aesthetics, task and process, and resources.
• Electronic Portfolio Rubric
  Assess creative use of technology, content, organization, and personal reflection.
• Scoring Rubric for Student Homepage Projects 
  Scores on links, page elements, grammar, design, and cooperation.
• Rubric for Evaluation [web sites]
  Criteria are development process, network skill, thinking process, writing process, HTML skill, layout, navigation, and images.
• Web Page Evaluation
  Evaluate student HTML projects on writing, content, navigation, layout, and graphics.
• Web Page Evaluation Criteria
  Score on ideas, organization, language, presentation, and technicalities.
• The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers: Rubrics 
  Sample rubrics for research skills, computer art and graphics, web pages, and multimedia projects.
• Rubric for Multimedia Presentation: PowerPoint 
  Score on writing, technical, communication, and technical organization.
• Multimedia Grading Rubric 
  Grades on media, content, and group dynamics.
• Rubric for Multimedia Publishing and Presentations: Page Mill 
  Rubric of web page design.
• Rubrics: Multimedia Mania 2001
  Judge and student rubrics for evaluating multimedia presentations.
• PBL [Project Based Learning] Checklists
  Rubrics for science, math, presentations, and multimedia; Divided by grade level.

Applicable General Rubrics

• Scoring Rubrics 
  Includes 8th and 10th grade mechanics scale, content quality, short answer tasks, and problem solving tasks.
• FNO: A Measure of Student Success: Assessing Information Problem-Solving Skills 
  Assessment of success using the research cycle.
• Oral Presentation Rubric
  Rates nonverbal skills, vocal skills, and content.

How to Create your own Rubrics

• Creating Rubrics: Inspire your Students and Foster Critical Thinking
  Five-part series on the advantages of rubrics, creating and weighting rubrics, etc.
• Creating a Rubric for a Given Task
  Discussion of dimensions to evaluate and identifying benchmarks for those dimensions.
• Rubric to Assess a PBL and Rubric
  Assess task and rubric for authenticity, dimensions, criteria, content, and creativity.

Rubric Software

• Rubistar: Create Rubrics for your Project-Based-Learning Activities 
  Tool to modify existing rubrics; Includes tutorial; From HPR*TEC.
• Teach-nology: Rubric Generators 
  Several generators including ones for presentations and projects and a general rubric generator.
• Rubric Builder 
  Automatically generate a rubric; Choose number of objectives and performance indicators, then fill out form.

These resources are designed to be used as resources for teaching the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TA TEKS). The TA CED wants to share these resources but is not responsible for any changes to external sites.